JUNE 2008
New York group
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Sacred Dances Teacher
Sacred Dances Process:
Consciousness Expansion
The practice of movements creates exceptional conditions for transforming the body ’Äìmachine so that the forces of intelligence, heart, and action can freely expand. This happens through the development of a certain quality of attention and relaxation.
Sincere efforts are needed, but efforts in lightness’Ķ. We can't fly freely through the inner sky burdened by the heaviness of seriousness. If the effort is made at the centre, the periphery will be taken care of, on its own, because it is the manifestation, the extension of the centre.
So, while practising the movements, we keep our center of attention in the watcher. From the flow of movements, emotions and thoughts we center into the one who sees them, the one who watches.
Yet we see how much we forget it again and again, getting distracted by some desire to reach, to succeed, some comparison or judgment. The movements call us back to the watcher, and further, to an anchor of stillness, silence and inner peace.
Such is the inner process, the inner dance of attention. Learning to sense the body from inside, by and by this sensation of the body radiates the whole of our being. The watching does not stop at the body, but expands to the room, the other participants, the music and sounds’Ķ
Distance with thoughts and emotions is created (this is dis-identification). Stillness is experienced at the core of all movements, inaction behind action...
* The seen is movements, forms, rhythm, group action
* The seer is formless, inaction, motionlessness
The movements are a flowing current but there is no movement at the centre. Through the changing forms, whether quick or slow, round or staccato, we awaken to the unchanging and the formless. Hence this feeling of freedom and expansion...